We all know that Facebook is one of the most important social networking site or social media that people use today. It’s one of the most effective medium for blog marketing as well and to get search engine traffic as it helps in getting better ranking in search engines.

While I was searching the net I’ve found some post about tips and rules how not to use Facebook for marketing and one of the few tips was:Do not use the same status/links or content for sharing all the time.Here’s the short description about the tip: “Using the same status or links all the time may be boring for your visitors. Instead you should use some interesting and related status or content that can effectively help you in getting search engine traffic from this social media. And also keep your content up to date so the people can find it interesting and they can share it on their walls to.”

From my perspective this tip is OK, but some of the new blogs or sites so-called “new urban portals where you can find all the new trends you like”, share some interesting articles about fashion, technology, life and many more, but didn’t use this tip on their Facebook fan pages. It’s not about having a fan page it’s about USING IT the right way.

Here’s the problem. I was scrolling down the Most Recent posts on Facebook and I came across a fan page that I had liked it before and it’s fan page for a new urban blog that shares some new and interesting rewritten articles from Google reader. They share links from their blog from articles that are published there. Ok, I can understand that, but sharing 4 months old articles even twice a day/week??? I was wondering is this some technical problem from Facebook and it doubles the post I’m seeing or is really reposting the same article twice. I accepted the challenge. I’ve opened the page and write down the fist 4 shared links and start to scroll down to see if I can find those 4 articles again. I’ve found them ones, twice and not to mention 3 more times in period of 2 months. And it was strange that even reposted, the article is liked more than 30 times/every post. Just can’t believe I’m seeing the popular match between Agassi and Federer at burj-al-arab hotel in Dubai, reposted 4 times in one month. As I remember (fix me if I’m wrong) that match was in 2009, and we’re 2011 and that post is not a new article for publishing at a new urban blog.

So, that’s how they have new visitors and their own market space on their blog so they can make money on reposting old articles. On the blog there are 10 categories and nearly 10 posts in every category, so that makes 100 different articles. From those 100 different articles that are also shared on their Facebook fan page, I can say that nearly 40% are reposted minimum twice. They have maybe 1 new article in two months, but that’s just nothing.

I’m really disappointed of the way they using the fan page, and also the way of attracting new visitors on their blog so they can increase the number of new clicks and visits on their blog, and get easy marketing money.

As a conclusion I’ll just say that you can find really useful using Facebook fan pages for marketing but not on this way, they are not email, nor a eNewsletter. It would be like standing at a chamber meeting with a mega-phone and blurting out the same text over and over again. My lest 3 things:

It’s most often not relevant to your particular audience

It’s SPAMMY

It’s uncreative and dry.

So, if you have some comments, critics… I’m always open to share some experience and thoughts with you.
Also if some of you like to take a look at the blog or at the fan page that I was talking, just let me know ;)

So what is logo? Why is it so important? Which color to choose? There are a lot of questions related to this topic and I’ll try to answer some of them that I consider important.

Recently I got a logo design to do, but the interesting thing is that the client called me and tell me all the things about how should its logo look and didn’t give me a space to offer him a design, he didn’t let me to ask which color he like? I’ve tried to explain him what is LOGO and how should look like and that his idea is a poster design not a logo design. And at the end I accept the challenge, he said that he likes the logo to be black, to put some stars around the name and that was it, 2 hours work and I was done.

I’m glad that he liked it ( cuz it was his design ) but I realize that most of the people don’t know how much important is there logo and how it’s design affects to their business.

Well, let’s answer some of those important questions related to the importance of the logo design.

First, what is a Logo?

Ok, most of the designers know the answer of this question, but for those who don’t I would say a logo is a unique colored image that represents your business in every form and enables your potential customers and target market to remember and recognize you or your business.

This is what Wikipedia writes about what is a Logo:
“Logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition.”

What do You need to have in Your Logo?

It’s simple. Your logo can be the name of your business done in some creative way and color or can have your business name plus some creative image. Sometimes is better to have designed a creative image with the name of your business, so latter you can use it just the image for example for printing t-shirts, posters, using in campaigns… I think it’s more efficient because your customers can recognize you by the image and it’s not taking much of the space when using it for marketing.

How to choose the right Color for Your Logo and how that affects Your Business?

Color, it’s non-verbal communication and creates a physical and emotional reaction of the customers and every color has its own message. Color is extremely powerful. When I was creating my first logo I’ve tried all the combinations and I really didn’t know which to choose, I liked them all, I liked them everywhere and it was very difficult problem.
But after I’ve done a little research I’ve discovered the Color Theory, the color wheel and how to combine the colors, which type of colors are the most used and for which purpose. Here’s a snapshot from a website that I found useful.

So think about colors on your logo, it does make a difference and affects your business.

Do You need to hire a designer or You can create a logo on Your Own ?

This is something that I would spend the money on and hire a designer to create me a logo because I like my logo to be everything, to build trust to my customers and my business to be recognized. But there are more possibilities on the internet so you can create it on your own using some user friendly web tools, search or download free software, find some great images or already used designs of logos and cut them in Photoshop and much more. Or you can also call a designer as in my case, and tell him what to do and not giving him a space to tell you what is better for your logo design, but it’s a free world it’s your choice.

As a conclusion I just have to say that all you have to do is to define what is your business for, what services do you offer to your clients, so you can define what design and color will suite your business. Also a good strategy is to look at other successful business to see how they did it and what message their logo sends.

So do you find this article useful? Can you share some of your experience either choosing a logo or designing a logo? Also I’m open for suggestions, comments and if you need to add something more to this article it would be good to share it?

And again, Google honors Fermat with this great doodle for his birthday, where if you hover your mouse over it, a note says : “I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this doodle is too small to contain.”

3D printing is a form of additive manufacturing technology where a three dimensional object is created by laying down successive layers of material. 3D printers are generally faster, more affordable and easier to use than other additive manufacturing technologies. 3D printers offer product developers the ability to print parts and assemblies made of several materials with different mechanical and physical properties in a single build process. Advanced 3D printing technologies yield models that can serve as product prototypes.

Since 2003 there has been large growth in the sale of 3D printers. Additionally, the cost of 3D printers has declined. The technology also finds use in the jewelry, footwear, industrial design, architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), automotive, aerospace, dental and medical industries, education, GIS, civil engineers, etc.

“A group of international hackers launched a cyber attack against BART today, defacing an agency website and releasing user information taken from the site.” – says Casey Newton, Chronicle Staff Writer at San Francisco Chronicle

She also said that the group know as Anonymous published the user informations on other website and the info contained names and passwords from all users of myBART service.“We are Anonymous, we are your citizens, we are the people, we do not tolerate oppression from any government agency,” the hackers wrote in an online posting. “BART has proved multiple times that they have no problem exploiting and abusing the people.”